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Nowadays, there are outstanding strides towards a future with autonomous vehicles on our roads. While the perception of autonomous vehicles performs well under closed-set conditions, they still struggle to handle the unexpected. This survey…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Daniel Bogdoll , Maximilian Nitsche , J. Marius Zöllner

The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoqi Huang , Ping Wang , Jianhua Pei , Jiacheng Wang , Shahen Alexanian , Dusit Niyato

Cybersecurity attacks in Cloud data centres are increasing alongside the growth of the Cloud services market. Existing research proposes a number of anomaly detection systems for detecting such attacks. However, these systems encounter a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Sakil Barbhuiya , Zafeirios Papazachos , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Anomaly detection has a wide range of real-world applications, such as bank fraud detection and cyber intrusion detection. In the past decade, a variety of anomaly detection models have been developed, which lead to big progress towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu

Anomaly detection is a significant problem faced in several research areas. Detecting and correctly classifying something unseen as anomalous is a challenging problem that has been tackled in many different manners over the years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Di Mattia , Paolo Galeone , Michele De Simoni , Emanuele Ghelfi

Existing household robots have made significant progress in performing routine tasks, such as cleaning floors or delivering objects. However, a key limitation of these robots is their inability to recognize potential problems or dangers in…

We consider the problem of building visual anomaly detection systems for mobile robots. Standard anomaly detection models are trained using large datasets composed only of non-anomalous data. However, in robotics applications, it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dario Mantegazza , Alessandro Giusti , Luca Maria Gambardella , Jérôme Guzzi

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

We consider the task of detecting anomalies for autonomous mobile robots based on vision. We categorize relevant types of visual anomalies and discuss how they can be detected by unsupervised deep learning methods. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Dario Mantegazza , Alessandro Giusti , Luca M. Gambardella , Andrea Rizzoli , Jérôme Guzzi

Detection of anomalous situations for complex mission-critical systems hold paramount importance when their service continuity needs to be ensured. A major challenge in detecting anomalies from the operational data arises due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shanay Mehta , Shlok Mehendale , Nicole Fernandes , Jyotirmoy Sarkar , Santonu Sarkar , Snehanshu Saha

An autonomous retail store management system entails inventory tracking, store monitoring, and anomaly correction. Recent attempts at autonomous retail store management have faced challenges primarily in perception for anomaly detection, as…

Robotic systems increasingly operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments, where tightly coupled sensors and software modules increase the probability of a single fault cascading across components and admitting multiple plausible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Andreas Wiedholz , Rafael Paintner , Julian Gleißner , Alwin Hoffmann , Tobias Huber

This paper presents a practical approach towards implementing pathfinding algorithms on real-world and low-cost non- commercial hardware platforms. While using robotics simulation platforms as a test-bed for our algorithms we easily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Sayyed Jaffar Ali Raza , Nitish A. Gupta , Nisarg Chitaliya , Gita R. Sukthankar

Robotic systems are more connected, networked, and distributed than ever. New architectures that comply with the \textit{de facto} robotics middleware standard, ROS\,2, have recently emerged to fill the gap in terms of hybrid systems…

Detecting anomalies in large, distributed systems presents several challenges. The first challenge arises from the sheer volume of data that needs to be processed. Flagging anomalies in a high-throughput environment calls for a careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Anupam Panwar , Himadri Pal , Jiali Chen , Kyle Cho , Riddick Jiang , Miao Zhao , Rajiv Krishnamurthy

The Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) targets distributed real-time systems and is widely used in the robotics community. Especially in these systems, latency in data processing and communication can lead to instabilities. Though being highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tobias Kronauer , Joshwa Pohlmann , Maximilian Matthe , Till Smejkal , Gerhard Fettweis

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in various domains, including cybersecurity, finance, and healthcare, by identifying patterns or events that deviate from normal behaviour. In recent years, significant progress has been made in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hadi Hojjati , Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

In this chapter we discuss the problem of master failure in ROS1.0 and its impact on robotic deployments in the real world. We address this issue in this tutorial chapter where we outline, design and demonstrate a fault tolerant mechanism…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Pushyami Kaveti , Hanumant Singh

Navigation in natural outdoor environments requires a robust and reliable traversability classification method to handle the plethora of situations a robot can encounter. Binary classification algorithms perform well in their native domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Lorenz Wellhausen , René Ranftl , Marco Hutter

It is imperative to develop an intrusion prevention system (IPS), specifically designed for autonomous robotic systems. This is due to the unique nature of these cyber-physical systems (CPS), which are not merely typical distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Enrique Soriano-Salvador , Francisco Martín-Rico , Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz